Halloween

I never quite made it out for Halloween weekend. The reasons:

1. Early morning work shifts.

2. Plans foiled (last night) by terrible Mexican food and the resultant lethargy and nausea. The restaurant had seemed so convincingly ugly...We really thought that the food would be delicious. But no, we were fooled, and the restaurant was of the typical "one burrito-one enchilada-one taco"-type combinations.

And they all sucked. Thousands of possible combinations written in thousands of ways on a million page menu, and they all sucked.

Oh well. At least I know why the holiday is called Halloween:

"c. 1745, Scottish shortening of Allhallow-even "Eve of All Saints, last night of October" (1556), the last night of the year in the old Celtic calendar, where it was Old Year's Night, a night for witches. Another pagan holiday given a cursory baptism and sent on its way. Hallowmas "All-saints" is first attested 1389. "

(source: Online Etymology Dictionary)